Motupipi and Central Takaka students Keep NZ Beautiful
Grown-ups and schoolchildren co-operated during Keep New Zealand Beautiful Week to take care of today’s Golden Bay environment and enhance it for the future.
Fonterra, a corporate sponsor of the week-long event, provided some workers to assist the senior students from Central Takaka School and Motupipi School in a range of environmental efforts.
The Fonterra staff helped the school children to plant 200 native trees at Paynes Ford. The children’s efforts won praise from Keep Golden Bay Beautiful stalwart Kathy Hindmarsh.
“It would have been some of the tidiest and most efficient tree-planting I’ve seen from a school group. The children did a great job and they can be very pleased with themselves.”
The school groups also took repsonsibilty for an area of the Bay to clean up. The Central Takaka students gathered 17 large bags of rubbish from the Waitapu Bridge area and the Motupipi students collected eight large bags from their area of Pohara Beach.
When the hard work was over, the students, their teachers, the Fonterra staff and all the other helpers from DOC and KGBB were all invited back to a barbecue lunch at Fonterra’s Takaka site.
Neil Wilson
